[Flashblock] Flashblock blocking non-flash content

[Akos Putz]

Hi,

First of all, thank you for this great plugin! :) However, using firefox3 beta5 + flashblock 1.5.5, it seems to block non-flash (and non-silverlight) content. We (LogMeIn, inc) are developing a remote control solution between computers, and our client runs as a browser plugin. Unfortunately, flashblock blocks us. We're embedding our plugin into the website as follows:

<object type="application/x-3amlabs-raremotecontrol" width="320" height="200"></object>

See, there is nothing flashy here, but the content is blocked anyway. Sadly, this is a big problem for us, because we're checking if the plugin is loaded correctly, and if it isn't, we're falling back to a non-native remote control mechanism (java, and then static html). So our users do not really have the chance to manually activate the plugin, by clicking on the 'f' placeholder button. I suppose this could be a bug in flashblock itself, because your intention is not to block every plugin object on the earth :) Could you please have a look at it?

Our (free as beer) plugin can be downloaded from here (if you would like to test this behavior yourselves) : https://www.logmein.com/activex/npRACtrl_ff3.xpi

Thank you for your help,

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Akos Putz
www.logmein.com